And the original repository install was uninstalled via the repository.

But I see your point about it being 7.0.24, but it should not be.

I will try one last time to install 7.0.26 on top of all this. If this fails I'm going to stop for now.

There must be left over files in there that the manager is finding. Unfortunately when I asked in the recent past what/where files may be left-over I never really got an answer. I'd say delete any boinc or .boinc in /var/lib/, but that will also probably delete the lib files that boinc depends on (the ones that caused the error earlier) so is probably not a good option.

Blah later, I'll post detailed instructions on installing boinc in 12.04, from the 10.04(or similar) repository. This will be a "clean" method, to overcome the mess of issues from the current repo packages and manual install methods.
Unless someone else wants to look into that and post it. (Martin) :-)

(I would think you could speicfy a 10.04 repository to apt, in the same line you use to install boinc from apt. I.E: "sudo apt-get install boinc <from><ubuntu 10.04's repository>")(and before we even do this, we need to purge all of boinc's existing files from our computers. using "apt-get purge boinc", "apt-get autoremove"(<-DON'T do this if you are an advanced user with manually installed wares), deleting boinc files from /var/lib/, and manually deleting ALL files we've added to other locations.)
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Good luck friend. one thing at a time. this way if you break it you'll know how to change it right back.

(and optimized aps is not anything I've done yet, I was waiting to get my server up to 12.04 first, (and that broke boinc), and now I'm gonna wait to have a clean repository install of 7.something.thatworks, but I know even running at 50% that would greatly increase my output)
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It works when done that way, but I cant see its task in the system monitor.

I'm not sure about desktop ubuntus, but I'm assuming the tasks aren't showing in your monitor because they are running as root, and your viewing the monitor as a user, there may be an option to "see all tasks" like in windows but I really don't know.

Try opening a terminal and running "sudo top", or even just "top", that should show you ALL running tasks.

(Also, if your boinc is runnning as root, and you use my crontab hack to run on start, you will need to put the command in the "root" cron by switching to root with sudo su before making the cron file.)
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I don't want to be a party-pooper, but the BOINC trunk code is up to v7.0.27 now, and the Linux build - the last of the three major platforms to be built - was put online about an hour ago.

The bugfixes in .27 are less dramatic than the problems in .24 that started this thread, but they are pretty important, just the same. I wouldn't presume to advise you on package maintenance - there are arguments both ways, both for incremental fixes and for holding back for a single 'best of breed' one-time upgrade - but I just thought I'd better warn you that .26 isn't the end of the line.

Yes, but I'm speaking only about the Ubuntu repository versions which have had an issue since 7.0.24.

[The Debian and Ubuntu package maintainers are aware that their compiles have an error affecting s@h and possibly others. They are trying to figure out what it is, and I think in time they will. In the meantime the Ubuntu package maintainer has been nice enough to compile one for us that doesn't have the debian patches that are assumed to be breaking it. As I said once it's tested and works they will be using it in the standard Ubuntu 12.04 repo, as a band-aid until they really get their issue nailed]

They expect 7.0.27 wont have this issue when they compile it for the repository, the Debian guys are looking into it. One thing at a time. Even 7.0.26 is too new for the standard repository IMO, but if this specific compile has been built in a fashion that actually will work, than that's the package they should use in the standard repository for now...

In the meantime we (Ubuntu users) will at least have a working version that the causal user can install with a package manager. [People use Ubuntu for simplicity, it defeats the purpose if they can't use a package manager to get crunching s@h with Boinc]

When they get the repository package bumped to 7.0.27 (or something else) is another issue.

But any working package in the Ubuntu repository will be better than the one that doesn't work. :-)
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So we know that the repository package is being broken (for S@H) due to a Debian patch used while compiling the Debian/Ubuntu repository package of Boinc 7.0.24.

Through process of elimination we will figure out which patch needs to be fixed.

A fix is in the works, that's all I can offer for now.

And I apologize for the few errored or dropped work-units I have and will produce here and there. Sorry wingmen. I'm keeping it to an absolute minimum. Apparently as the one bringing their bug to their attention, I get the honor of testing for them. LOL

Steffen Moeller, who is the Debian package maintainer, is aware of the issue. He is working with us to figure out which Debian/Ubuntu patch needs to be fixed. Because of this future repository packages should be all set. :-)

Steffen had this to offer us:

"The bug is fixed by undoing some presumed improvements of mine. This needs some further investigation...
Maybe we should just fine those aliens quickly and have them fix it all for us...or eradicate man kind.

Cheers,

Steffen"

So, just hang out for a fix, we're making it happen. Testing one build at a time.
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We're pretty sure we've narrowed down the repository bug to one specific patch! Luckily it's not a patch crucial to anything, as far as the Debian package maintainer believes.

Hopefully tomorrow the build will be put together and tested.

If it's a good build I think it will be pushed into the Ubuntu repository. This would be version 7.0.26 afaik.

7.0.27 is having issues being compiled at all by the Ubuntu folks, something is awry. So if this working version 7.0.26 ends up in the Ubuntu repository, we probably wouldn't see another version change in any Debian/Ubuntu repository until .28 at the soonest.

I'll update tomorrow or the day after if/when they put a working package in the Ubuntu repository.
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